Sport ‘needs to change,’ says Ontario minister as referee body-cam project begins for youth soccer

The “culture of sport has to change” and youth soccer officials should not be subject to “disgraceful” harassment while doing their jobs, says Ontario’s minister of sport.

where soccer referees are donning body cameras to deter abuse, Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sport Neil Lumsden said: “Really? We have to go to that extent now to … make sure parents and fans on the perimeter of a field are not harassing officials?

Starting this month, Ontario Soccer is providing body cameras to referees, mainly in the under-nine and under-11 age groups, and will be able to call a time out if situations start to get out of hand, the Star’s Kerry GillespieLumsden, a Canadian Football League Hall of Famer who has also coached minor sports, said he recently spoke at a conference of sport officials and “afterwards I talked to their leadership group.

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